I support this to 110%, and it deserves higher priority as it would be very useful and also seems like something that wouldn't be too hard to implement since it only needs to return a variable.

draw_get_font, draw_get_halign, draw_get_valign are just a few of the functions that would prove useful. Imho, if there is a set_ function there should also be a get_ function that returns the value. It is extremely useful in scripts where you're temporarily changing one of those values and at the end of the script want to change it back.